Scotland Bans TikTok on Government Mobile Phones and Devices Over Spy Fears

Scotland Bans TikTok on Government Mobile Phones and Devices Over Spy Fears
The TikTok app's logo seen on a mobile phone screen in an illustration taken on Feb. 21, 2019. Danish Siddiqui/Illustration/Reuters
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The Scottish government has placed an immediate ban on the use of social media app TikTok from its mobile phones and corporate devices over Chinese spying fears.

The move, announced on Thursday afternoon, came moments after the UK government said it was expanding its own device and phone ban of the Chinese video-sharing platform to include the whole parliamentary network.

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